Most of Route 22 is crazy enough to navigate when traffic patterns are logical and road signs are easily seen and understood.

But the highway can turn treacherous when routes are confusing and drivers miss the warning signs.

The exit and entrance into the Greenwich Township Shopping Center where ShopRite of Greenwich and Home Depot are located creates challenges for far too many drivers. The right traveling lane of westbound Route 22 just before the shopping center entrance is a right-turn only lane for drivers entering the shopping center. And although the lane continues briefly past the entrance, it is there only for drivers exiting the shopping center and merging into Route 22 traffic.

"There are multiple signs for that lane that say, "Right Lane Must Turn Right" yet everyone uses it as a passing lane during rush hour," explains Dawn, who nominated this stretch of Route 22 for Somebody Do Something.

"They should put right-turn arrows in the lane to warn drivers that the lane is only for entering the shopping center and not to cut off traffic in the proper lane," Dawn says. "Also, the signs I mentioned are obstructed by overgrown brush from spring to fall."

Are you familiar with this area? Do you agree that right-turn arrows would help make it safer? Do you have other ideas?

Somebody Do Something
is a regular feature in which we focus on problem spots in the Lehigh
Valley and northwest New Jersey. Among the problems we've drawn
attention to are rundown buildings, dangerous or confusing traffic
intersections (this one was fixed), broken stairs (that were fixed), a bumpy road (that was fixed) a dangerous storm drain (that was fixed) and an uneven driveway (that was fixed). The goal is to
highlight the problem, generate public discussion and, hopefully, get
the problem fixed by those with the power to do so.

If you know of a trouble spot that you'd like to see featured, post a comment below or email Janice Blake Piccotti at jpiccotti@express-times.com.